Quotes

This is a hodge-podge collection of some of my favorite quotes. I have included some that make me smile, some that make me think, some that make me dream, and so forth. In other words, please enjoy the mixed up chaos of my quotable collection. To buy your own collection of quotes, click here.

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."-Eleanor Roosevelt

“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.”-Maxwell Maltz

"The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."-Carl Jung

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."-Albert Einstein

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."-Buddha

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."-Wayne Dyer

"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."-Henry David Thoreau


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"The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”-Bo Bennett

"A meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency; it is much more a matter of what you do and why you do it." –Stephen Covey

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. "-Groucho Marx

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."-Thucydides

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."-Jim Rohn

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln

"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life."-Harvey Mackay

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."-Albert Einstein

"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."–Ralph Marston

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."-Leo Tolstoy

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”-Aldous Huxley

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."-Benjamin Disraeli

"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."-Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."-Aristotle

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."-Publilius Syrus

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."-Robert Collier

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."-Leon J. Suenes

"Carpe Diem"

"First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do."-Epictetus

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."-George Carlin

"I am a woman above everything else."-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." -Demosthenes

"Well behaved women rarely make history." -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"Why are women ... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?" -Virginia Woolf

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."-Frank Lloyd Wright

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." -Albert Schweitzer

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."-Helen Keller

"Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be."-Henry David Thoreau

"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."-Martha Washington

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." -Anne Frank

"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."-Thomas Alva Edison

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."-Albert Camus

"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live."-Bertrand Russell

"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves."-Helen Keller



I hope you have enjoyed my collection of quotes. If you have any favorite quotes, not yet included on this page, that you would like to recommend, please email Smiley. I am always on the lookout for cool quotes. I look forward to reading yours!

P.S. Be sure to check back often for new quotes. I may have posted yours.








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